Dress-stud.



No. 660,609. Patented Oct. 30, I900.

G. WILSON.

DRESS STUD.

(Application filed Am. 10, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GERALD WILSON, OF LEEDS, ENGLAND.

DRESS-STU D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 660,609, dated October 30, 1900.

Application filed April 10, 1905). Serial No. 12,292. (No model.)

To ctZZ whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERALD WILsoN, asubject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at No. 69 Cowper street, in the city of Leeds, county of York, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dress Studs, Clips, or Solitaires, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved stud, clip, or solitaire for fastening and retaining in position collars, ties, shirt-fronts, cuffs, and the like wearing-apparel, the object of my said invention being to provide a stud, clip, orsolitaire which may be readily inserted in position and which shall not be liable to work loose accidentally.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved stud, clip, or solitaire when closed. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of same when open. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of same when closed, and Fig. 4 is a front elevation of same with pivoted tongue removed.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In constructing my improved dress stud, clip, or solitaire I employ a front plate or disk A, in front of which is hinged or pivoted (preferably near the top of the plate or disk) a metal tongue B, bent to a suitable shape to facilitate its insertion in the buttonhole or loop of the collar or other article to be secured. The said tongue B is preferably pivoted to a small forked bracket 0, attached to the plate or disk A, its upper end or heel D bearing against the free end of a fine bladespring E, fixed to or forming part of the said plate or disk A. The said spring E thus tends to hold the tongue B in contact with the lower edge of the plate or disk A, so retaining in position the collar or other article or articles through which the said tongue B is passed. The bracket 0 has a base 0,which is secured between the plates A and F, so that its arms project through openings in the plate A at the sides of the free end of the spring E, which is struck up from the plate A.

To prevent the collar or other article from working loose, I provide near the inner end of the tongue B a round neck G, terminating in two straight shoulders H H, which said shoulders effectually prevent the collar or other article from working toward the outer end of the tongue B.

A back plate or disk F, suitably hollowed or recessed, is fixed to the front plate A in any suitable manner, so as to inclose and protect the spring E. The said back plate or disk F may, if desired, be embossed or otherwise ornamented.

The stud, clip, or solitaire may be made of any suitable metal or material.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,-

In a stud, the combination, with a plate A having a spring E struck up from it, of a plate F the edges of which inclose the edges of the plate A and protect the spring, a forked bracket having a base c' inclosed between the plates A and F with its arms projecting through openings in said plate A at the sides of the free end of the spring, and a bent tongue B pivoted between the said arms and engaging with the said spring, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' GERALD WILSON.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. WALSH, ALLAN BENNETT. 

